It has been said that a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged. Well, to quote Yogi, I’m smarter than the average bear, I’m a conservative who has never been mugged, but was smart enough to figure out, all on my own, that being soft and lenient on crime does not turn criminals into liberal sweethearts, but just more emboldened criminals. Sadly, it took being mugged for the leftists in the land of fruits and nuts to figure out what ought to have been plain, common sense:

S.F. DA recalled, L.A.’s Caruso advances as Democrats tested on crime

Some of the highest-profile primaries were fueled by angst over liberal leaders’ approach to public safety

by Hannah Knowles | Tuesday, June 7, 2022 | 11:00 PM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, June 8, 2022 | 2:58 AM EDT

Crime, homelessness and Democratic divisions over the issues took center stage Tuesday as a liberal prosecutor in San Francisco was recalled and seven states held primaries that helped mold each party’s image heading into November’s fight for control of Congress, statehouses and major cities across the country.

The recall of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin (D) — whom critics called too lenient — came as angst over liberal leaders’ approach to public safety also loomed large in a contest for Los Angeles mayor, where Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) and billionaire businessman Rick Caruso are projected to advance to a runoff. Caruso, a former Republican, has pitched himself as a different kind of Democrat who will fix long-simmering crises in the nation’s second-largest city.

Mr Boudin, “whose parents were members of the Weather Underground domestic terrorist group,” and

campaigned for the office on a decarceration platform of eliminating cash bail, establishing a unit to re-evaluate wrongful convictions and refusing to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with raids and arrests. The San Francisco Police Officers Association (SFPOA) and other law enforcement groups spent $650,000 in an unsuccessful effort to defeat Boudin. Attorney General William Barr criticized Boudin and like-minded DAs, accusing them of undermining the police, letting criminals off the hook and endangering public safety. In an interview during the COVID-19 pandemic, Boudin questioned whether the nation “can safely continue the national system of mass incarceration. Why do we need to take people to jail for non-violent offenses if what they really need is drug treatment or mental health services?”

Philadelphia’s District Attorney, Larry Krasner, campaigned on much the same platform, and needs to thank his lucky stars that Pennsylvania has no recall statute; Mr Krasner is ‘safe’ until the next election for District Attorney in 2025.

Philadelphians won’t be safe, of course, but Mr Krasner doesn’t care much about that!

Like Mr Krasner, Mr Boudin was the recipient of campaign largesse from billionaire George Soros, 91, who has financed several campaigns for far-left defense attorneys to become stooge prosecutors. Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gasçon was the recipient of more than $2.5 million of Mr Soros’ money and said in his December 2020 inauguration speech that:

the rush to “incarcerate generations of kids of color” had torn the “social fabric of our communities. The status quo hasn’t made us safe.”

One thing has become brutally honest, from hard-earned experience: the rush to keep petty criminals out of jail, and the efforts by the Soros’ stooges to attack not crime, but the police, has made cities far less safe than they were before.

I’ve said it before: the problem isn’t mass incarceration, but that not enough people have been incarcerated, for not enough time.

Back to The Washington Post:

Surrounded by supporters at a bar Tuesday night, Boudin said the recall campaign “exploited an environment in which people are appropriately upset.”

“They were given an opportunity to voice their frustration and their outrage, and they took that opportunity,” he said.

“Looking for someone to blame,” an audience member chimed in.

Mr Boudin is right: the voters were frustrated and outraged, but he never really got it: they were frustrated and outraged at him and his policies, because his policies didn’t work. One would think that someone as intelligent and educated as Mr Boudin would be able to see that, regardless of what he wants to believe, his liberal policies made things worse, not better.

But, of course, Mr Boudin isn’t a liberal who has been mugged. The lovely Amanda Marcotte’s headline subtitle to which we referred both here and on American Free News Network said that “Crappy gun laws cause our crime problems. But Republicans blame liberal prosecutors and make racist arguments,” but the gun laws haven’t changed, while the prosecutors have.

The numbers are stark. In Philadelphia, Mayor Michael Nutter, District Attorney Seth Williams — who had his own legal problems and has spent some time in prison himself — and Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey led the City of Brotherly Love from a homicide number of 391 in 2007, the year in which he was elected, down to 246 in 2013. The numbers did increase, up to 280 in 2015, his last full year in office, but once his successor, Jim Kenney got in office, the numbers soared, to 315 in 2017, then 353 in 2018, which happens to be when Mr Krasner became District Attorney.

Then there were 356 in 2019, a very slight increase, before skyrocketing to 499 in 2020, and 562 in 2021. So far this year there have been 220 homicides, and the trend is for 540 murders, which would be second place all time.^[1]Methodology: I took the number of homicides through June 7th, 220, and divided it by the number of homicides on the same date last year, which yielded 0.9606986899563319. I then multiplied that by … Continue reading

Post hoc ergo propter hoc, or ‘after this, therefore caused by this’, is a logical fallacy, but one thing is certain: the liberal policies of the Soros sponsored district attorneys have not produced the social justice nirvana promised by them. Keeping more criminals out of jail has yet to produce a situation in our cities in which crime has decreased. The voters in uber liberal San Francisco, who gave 85.26% of their votes to Joe Biden in 2020, have just kicked Chesa Boudin to the curb.